Everyone is posting these on Facebook lately, but I’d figured I’d post mine here instead.
Create Your Own Visited States Map
Even though I’ve been checking Facebook here and there, I haven’t interacted with it since the end of October. It’s been a little self-imposed experiment for me to see what life would be like not posting so much online and I have to admit, after the first week where it just felt weird, I don’t miss it much. The problem with Facebook (or any social media network, really) is that you see all the stuff everyone else is doing and you can’t help but make comparisons. And, as Teddy Roosevelt said, comparison is the thief of joy.
I rather miss the days where you’d live your life offline except for coming home and posting about your day on your blog. Now everyone just posts little tidbits all over social media constantly as they are doing said things. I’m not necessarily saying it’s a bad thing, it’s just different and I miss the way things were before.
Back to the map – if you check here you will see that we’ve traveled a decent amount since 2004 when my map wasn’t nearly as populated. As it stands now I’ve visited half the states in the country. I’d like to hit more of the east coast since I know it’s just a matter of time before we move out west. I’m not so sure about the southern states, though. I don’t have much of a desire to visit Arkansas, Kansas, Alabama, Louisiana, or Mississippi so they may remain unvisited indefinitely.